Some Women Just Need to See a Woman Win
Why Kimmie from Beauty in Black Is One Of My Heroes Some women just need to see a woman win. Not for the applause. Not for the headlines. But because we’ve been through hell at the hands of people who were supposed to protect us, love us, raise us—not break us. That’s why I’m watching Beauty in Black . And that’s why Kimmie is one of my heroes. Kimmie is a fighter. She doesn’t just survive—she rises. She’s passionate, raw, and real. She doesn’t pretend her life is perfect, and she doesn’t let the pain define her. She walks through the fire and keeps going, head high, heart open. I see myself in her. I see so many of us in her. Women who’ve been silenced, hurt, dismissed. Women who’ve had to rebuild ourselves from the ground up. Watching Kimmie live with boldness, with honesty (she will lie in life/death situations) , with fight—that’s a kind of healing I didn’t even know I needed. When you’ve lived through abuse, watching another woman rise above her circumstances is mo...